WARNING: DO NOT EAT ANY WILD FOODS UNLESS THEIR IDENTITY HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY A KNOWLEDGEABLE EXPERT. MANY WILD PLANTS, MUSHROOMS, ETC. MAY CAUSE SEVERE ILLNESS OR EVEN DEATH. CAUTION!
Name (Latin and Common)
Uses
Pictures
Chenopodium alba
Lamb's Quarter
Leafy vegetable similar to spinach. Grows in gardens and yards spring/summer.
Stem vegetable. The same spears may be cut numerous times from spring to early summer. It's easier to find at the end of summer once it has "ferned out" as in this picture.
Vitis
Various grape species
Fruit. There are many species both wild and cultivated, and the leaves are virtually unmistakable.
Grifolia frondosa//
1. Hen of the Woods
2. Ram's head mushroom
Edible wild fungus. Grows from the soil surrounding the base of oak trees/stumps in Pennsylvania and New York in the fall.
Lamb's Quarter
Asparagus
Various grape species
1. Hen of the Woods
2. Ram's head mushroom